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I'm not particularly interested in Wildlands, it's just not my kind of game. But I'm really digging how this kind of licensed DLC is becoming increasingly common. Stuff like having DLC characters that allow for an Alien vs Predator (or Freddy vs Jason, if they weren't available in different games) match in Mortal Kombat is just pure dumb fun. But I was looking at Dead by Daylight DLC yesterday and I had heard about the recent Freddy Kruger pack but turns out there's also a Michael Myers one and a Leatherface one, which is just fucking awesome to have for that game. It kinda makes me wish there wasn't a similar Friday the 13th game, just so Jason could be in there with the others.

No mouse movement, no. I don't think that would work all that well for a non-isometric game, though. It's either controller or mouse and keyboard (with the mouse only controlling the camera). I wouldn't say it's as fast-paced as Ys. At least so far, most enemies are fairly slow and relatively easy to dodge, so it seems like they at least took the stiffness into account. The store page says the 10% discount ends on December 15. So you've got another week or so.

Well, I only put about 3 hours into it so far but I've cleared the first chapter so I think I have a decent idea of what the game will be like. Basically, it's Cold Steel but without the Trails and with a little bit more Persona. It clearly runs on the same engine because all the "building blocks" (text boxes, sound effects, character models, etc...) are identical or very similar. Ultimately the story will be the main factor for me but I really like it so far. The combat feels kinda weird, though. It's basically Ys-like action-RPG combat but with the stiff movement from Cold Steel. It works fine but it's not exactly tight. If movement bothered you in Cold Steel, @Mal, I think you're not gonna be crazy about it. I wonder if they were limited by their engine choice (or perhaps code reuse) or if it was somehow intentional. Does Ys VIII run on the same engine? Because if it does then I'm kinda baffled. You would think Falcom of all developers would know how to make tight, responsive action-RPG combat.

I told myself I'd wait and then I just bought it the second it went live anyway. Oh well, at least I didn't get screwed over by the currency bullshit. It's like 62 bucks after the launch discount, which is pretty reasonable. It'll be almost 4AM by the time it's done downloading, though, so now the question is do I stay up or not...

Tokyo Xanadu is live on Steam with a 10% launch discount! Never heard of a 3AM unlock time but I'm not complaining. Kinda wish it had been closer to midnight, though, because then I would've had a few hours to play.

You technically know more, you just have a billion more questions. Questions like "what in the fucking name of hell?" and "how many drugs is Kojima on?". I really hope that FROM thing isn't another Sony exclusive. Ideally a multiplatform Souls-like in a completely new setting.

Last I heard, CS2 is due early 2018 (I wanna say January but I honestly can't remember if I saw Durante hinting at it or if it's just wishful thinking on my part) so I'm hoping to see the store page go up this month. Then again, I've been burned before by being too optimistic about XSEED's release windows... In other news, the awful store banner for Tokyo Xanadu eX+ has been changed to a much better looking one. Also, I guess it's coming in 2 days! I probably shouldn't buy it, especially with Okami and the RE7 DLC next week, but I probably will -_-. Unless they go "Fuck Canada" and charge like 80 bucks for it, I guess. That would make it easier to hold off.

After spending the last few days back in Atelier Sophie, I was in the mood for more anime JRPG bullshit. Since Gust's other games are still a bit too pricy, I grabbed this one. Only played an hour or so and so far my main takeaway is that 2 hours is way too short for the refund window. I loved everything about it except the gameplay, which wasn't as good as I expected. I feel like it could grow on me, though. And like I said, I love pretty much everything else about it. So the story, music, characters, etc, could likely carry the game. I feel like I'd need something like ~5 hours or so with it to really know for sure. :/

Meh, I want to get a Switch eventually but I don't think I'd ever play anything other than exclusives on it. VC4 will probably come to PC at some point, I'd rather hold off for a port than buy a console just to play it early. Anyway, just wrapped up one more game. They finally patched the 2D assets to be full resolution, so I used that as an excuse to jump back in and finish the post-game stuff. Now if only they'd do better discounts during sales. I'd like to get Atelier Firis before the new one comes out but it was still like 50 bucks in the last Steam sale, which seems a little steep to me.

XSEED had a mystery stream planned for tonight (still going, I think) and the big announcement is that they're also releasing Zwei 1. Apparently they had been working on both games concurrently and the second one was simply ready to release first. Kind of unexpected, I figured the first one might be too much of a headache for tech reasons. Especially since they dropped the 2 from the sequel's english title. But hey, at least now I'll get to play them in order. Also, for once they put the Steam store page up right away.

The pre-order discount on GamersGate seemed about as good as it was going to get so I went for it. Oh and this was like 5 bucks on chrono.gg a few days ago. I expect now that I finally pulled the trigger it'll be bundled any day now...

Well, they might not have announced Valkyria Chronicles 4 for PC but at least the announcement got me to finally go back to the original and finish it off. Hopefully this isn't the last time I play a Valkyria game on PC.

I know it's just the first trailer but after that leaked Comic Con footage I was kind of hoping to see Thanos do something a little scarier than just punching Iron Man. Although, to be fair, that looked like a hell of a punch. Looks pretty good otherwise, though. Anyway, can't believe we're already almost there. It felt so far off at the time but the original Avengers doesn't feel like it was THAT long ago. Also, I don't think I ever did the ranking thing so here goes. God tier: The Avengers Captain America: The Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy Doctor Strange Thor: Ragnarok Great tier: Iron Man 3 Ant-Man Captain America: Civil War Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Spider-Man: Homecoming Good-to-okay tier Iron Man The Incredible Hulk Thor Captain America: The First Avenger Avengers: Age of Ultron Shit tier: Iron Man 2 Thor: The Dark World Most of these I've only ever seen once, though, so this is subject to change if I ever decide to do a full MCU rewatch. Not the shit tier, though. I'm never rewatching those pieces of garbage. I'm noticing that, personally, I find the quality is actually improving over time. I wasn't that crazy about any of the Phase 1 movies back in the day but the hype leading up to The Avengers was more than enough to carry them. But now I find myself enjoying random stuff like Ant-Man and Doctor Strange way more than I ever did anything before the first Avengers. It has me pretty hyped about Black Panther, even though it should be completely overshadowed by the insanity that is Infinity War.

With the Deadpool game having recently been delisted once again, I figured I probably should grab MvC3 while I still can. You never know with these fucking licensed games and there's something about Marvel specifically that seems to make them prone to sudden disappearance. The RE7 season pass finally hit something closer to a sane price over on GamersGate and with the last of the DLC coming in a few weeks I figured I might as well. Also grabbed some dirt cheap DLC not worth posting pics for, including the Mankind Divided season pass because I hate myself.

This is amazing and I want it to be a real game so fucking bad.

Good to know it only gets better! I'm almost done with season 2 and it's also been pretty good. Although, and this is probably just because the first season was so unexpectedly good, but I kinda feel like it doesn't quite hit the same highs as the first season. Of course, now that I've said that the last few eps will probably prove me wrong.

See, based on what I've seen of the two, to me it looks like Ys VIII suffered from bad translation while this is bad localization. The Tokyo Xanadu stuff is super cringy and reads like they took too many (bad) liberties with the text, but at least it reads like coherent english and I can kinda see someone saying those things IRL. That someone would come off as kind of a weirdo but at least it doesn't sound stilted or unnatural, which is more than I can say about some of the Ys VIII screenshots I've seen. Hopefully all of this stuff will be gone by the time we get our hands on the game, but if not at least it's the lesser of two evils as far as I'm concerned.

I've been eagerly awaiting the day my old Dell keyboard breaks so I can justify upgrading to a mechanical one. That day still hasn't come but Black Friday has and with it a deal on this Logitech keyboard I've been keeping an eye on just in case. Amazon Canada doesn't usually have great Black Friday deals in my experience but they actually slashed 100 bucks off of this one. Way too good of a deal to pass on. Should go nicely with the Logitech mouse I bought earlier this year. At this point the only upgrade left my PC truly needs is a SSD.

My only issue with the movement in Cold Steel was that the stick on my Steam controller has gone to shit and Rean kept slowing down to a walk whenever I pushed in any direction other than straight up. I actually had to fuck around in the settings and set the detection curve to be more aggresive. Kind of annoying and it's only gotten worse since. I'm gonna need a replacement, I think. But you gotta hand it to Valve, though. The level of customization on that thing is absolutely insane. And that's good to know about the translation being reworked a bit. I had heard that it was also rough but it didn't seem to be anywhere near as bad as Ys VIII because no one was talking about it. I completely forgot the Vita version came out months ago, too. So yeah, out of all the recent Falcom releases this is definitely the lesser profile one. I've been looking forward to it for what feels like years now but I'm trying to keep expectations in check.

The year of Falcom (on Steam) continues! Shitty store image aside, it mentions Dec 8 as the release date, which would make it same day as PS4. Might be an oversight since it was previously assumed to be coming later. But if not, they would actually beat NISA/Ys VIII to release on Steam. If their port is solid (and with Ghostlight handling it, it just might be), then this just makes NISA look even worse. edit: Definitely not an oversight!

I finished binge watching the first season of BoJack Horseman last night. I'd heard about it here and there but it was mostly off my radar. The only reason I even checked it out is because I resubbed to Netflix for Stranger Things 2 and figured I might as well watch some other stuff. I don't know what I expected but it wasn't something this fucking good. I mean, I don't know if I'd call it as good as Rick and Morty but it's definitely up there. But it seems like people don't talk about it anywhere near as much. Am I just out of the loop on this one? Or are the other seasons not as good or something? Like, I have nothing against cartoons but at times this felt like a "real" show that just happened to be a cartoon. Maybe it's in part because the Netflix model allows them to not be episodic and have some real continuity, but the story definitely went to some darker and heavier places than I expected.

It's even better when they allow you to bump up the difficulty on NG+. Having all my upgrades would make my Akumu playthrough of Evil Within much less daunting.

Like Metal said, a lot of them are. Reach the outpost, kill the 2-3 enemies in it and capture. And even the ones that aren't, having scouts that can just run across the entire map in a single turn is still pretty useful in getting A ranks. I fired up the original last night to finally get started on that NG+ run and I already made it past the infamous tank mission, which is like 7 chapters in.

I would assume the fan patch goes the opposite direction because the game is pretty broken to begin with. As soon as you have high enough level scouts, all challenge disappears because you can just goal rush in a turn or two. When the PC version first came out, there was a bug that caused you to take way more damage due to the bump to 60fps and some people didn't want it to be patched because it actually made the game feel more balanced lol.